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While officials and experts are investigating the sudden collapse of a nearly completed 13-story apartment building in Shanghai on Saturday, and nine unidentified people have been detained, little information has been made publicly available about the parties involved in the Lotus Riverside development, an 11-building project now best known for its fallen apartment tower. Over the last two days, China Journal has been calling the listed number of the project’s developer, Shanghai Meidu Property Development Co., to no avail, as no one is answering the phone.

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Little is known about the developer of Lotus Riverside (Imaginechina via AP Images)

But China’s “human flesh search engines” have gotten on the case. Last night, a purported name list of shareholders in the closely held Meidu was posted on the popular online forum Tianya.cn. In addition to names, the list includes the addresses and national ID numbers of the 24 listed persons, all of whom also serve on Meidu’s board of directors, the post said.‬‪‬‪ The post’s author also said that several of the shareholders had the same names as local government officials.

One of the names on the shareholder list is the same as the name of the person who is listed on the Minhang district government’s Web site as assistant director of Meilong town, part of Minhang district, where Lotus Riverside is located. Another listed shareholder has the same name as Meilong’s director of the land expropriation bureau, while two others share their names with the deputy director and a staff worker of the land expropriation bureau.‬‪‬‪ The Shanghai-based National Business Daily newspaper reported the shareholder name list posted on Tianya matched the records on file with the archives office of the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce (report in Chinese here). ‬‪ Read More »

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